He knew that the heart was left out of his work, and that both mind and soul were growing morbid with dwelling on the faulty, absurd and metaphysical phases of life and character.

Emily brooded and grew morbid over it.

Men of uncommon intellect, who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days, and then are lifeless for as many more.

His lack of an heir other than Abraham began to preoccupy him to the extent where he grew morbid and introspective.

To dream you take quack medicine, shows that you are growing morbid under some trouble, and should overcome it by industrious application to duty.

David found himself growing morbid again.

The visible change in Edgar was that he grew morbid, sad, silent; the neighbours thought he was going mad.

And you killed him," Erij added then, as if they had been discussing some distant acquaintance, "in the sense that you killed Kandrys: Father grew morbid over Kandrys.

We grow morbid, brother.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive, under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of confinement.